Sara Bernard obtained her Ph.D in South-Eastern European History from the University of Regensburg, Germany. She is a lecturer in Societal Transformations, Central and East European Studies School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. She is co-founder and co-coordinator of the Labour Migration History Working Group, European Labour History Network, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and member of the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration network (GRAMNET) and the Centre for cultural historical research on socialism, University of Pula (Croatia).